1 Rocket attacks: Gaza militants pummeled southern Israel with rockets for a third day in a row on Monday. A million Israelis are in range of the rockets. Israeli leaders have warned they won't tolerate continued barrages and have threatened a more forceful response. Six Palestinians have been killed in Israeli counterstrikes, Palestinians said.

2 Warlord mobilizes: One of the most powerful former mujahedeen commanders who battled the Soviets and the Taliban in Afghanistan, Ismail Khan, is calling on his followers to reorganize and defend the country as Western militaries withdraw, in a public demonstration of faltering confidence in the national government and the Western-built Afghan National Army. Khan's announcement has stoked fears that other regional leaders will follow suit, increasing the likelihood of civil war.

3 Deportation appeal: Britain's Special Immigration Appeals Commission said it is not convinced that Jordan would guarantee Abu Qatada, a radical Islamist cleric who has been convicted in his absence in Jordan of terrorist offenses related to two alleged bomb plots, a fair trial. Britain's government has been attempting since 2001 to deport the radical preacher. But on Monday, the commission endorsed a European Court of Human Rights ruling, which said that "not only is torture widespread in Jordan, so too is the use of torture evidence by its courts."

4 Human rights commission: The United States was re-elected Monday to another three-year term on the U.N. Human Rights Council. Also elected Monday by the 193-member General Assembly were Argentina, Brazil, Ivory Coast, Ethiopia, Gabon, Germany, Ireland, Japan, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Montenegro, Pakistan, South Korea, Sierra Leone and the United Arab Emirates.

5 Corruption trial: Brazil's high court on Monday sentenced one of the most powerful figures in the governing Workers Party to nearly 11 years in prison for orchestrating a vast vote-buying scheme, sending shock waves through Brazil's political establishment. Justices in the Supreme Federal Tribunal said Jose Dirceu, a top ally and former chief of staff of Brazil's popular former president, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, was sentenced to 10 years and 10 months in prison after being found guilty of charges that are roughly the equivalent of unlawful conspiracy and bribery.

6 Sex abuse probe: Australia's Prime Minister Julia Gillard ordered a federal inquiry Monday into allegations of child sex abuse in state and religious institutions and community groups following a string of sexual abuse accusations against priests and claims of a Catholic Church cover-up. The investigation will target religious and state institutions, schools and community groups such as sporting clubs.

7 IRA killing: A new Irish Republican Army faction in Northern Ireland claimed responsibility Monday for its first killing and defended the bloodshed as a necessary act of vengeance. The group, a merger of factions, said in a statement in Belfast that its members shot to death David Black this month because he worked as a guard at Northern Ireland's top-security Maghaberry prison. About 40 members of IRA factions are imprisoned there. The dominant anti-British paramilitary group, the Provisional IRA, began an open-ended truce that inspired Northern Ireland's peace process. The Provisionals renounced violence and disarmed in 2005.